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Creating Concrete5 Themes

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Creating Concrete5 Themes

Overview of this book

Creating a concrete5 theme isn't complicated if there’s already a HTML document. There are only very few PHP functions you’ll have to add, but those are powerful and give you a lot of freedom. As you’ll learn to create mobile ready themes, you’ll start to see that there’s almost no limit in what you can do."Creating Concrete5 Themes" is a practical, hands-on guide that provides you with a number of examples that will teach you how to create powerful concrete5 themes, change the look of content block elements, and even make your site ready for mobile devices."Creating Concrete5 Themes" starts with a few words about the editing concept and architecture of concrete5 and then continues with the creation of a basic theme which gets extended with more and more elements until the theme is mobile ready.You will learn where to find the information necessary to get your own concrete5 site and then get a quick introduction to understand the idea of the in-site editing concept. We’ll then create a theme which is extended with features and more details as we progress. You’ll also see some examples to show you the process of overriding elements from the core without losing the ability to upgrade concrete5 in the future. Once we’ve customized every element in concrete5 to build a complete theme, we’ll have a look at responsive techniques to make your site ready for small screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets.  
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Creating concrete5 Themes
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a portfolio list with filter


As you might have guessed, the page list block allows you to build a list of pages. This list is flat and can't display any kind of hierarchy like the autonav block does. However, you can add a few filter options in the page list block to show only a certain type of page. If you look at the following screenshot, you can see a setting that will display 10 pages of the Blog Entry type:

Such a list could be used to display the latest news, articles, a list of team members, products, and probably a lot more if you consult your imagination. When you add this block, it will show you a simple list of pages with the page description you entered when you created the page, and of course, a link to bring you to the detail page. This is okay but might be a bit too simple. What if the list gets long and confusing? Wouldn't it be nice if there was a filter that your visitor could use in order to hide those pages he doesn't need?

As you might have already guessed, that...